Monday, January 01, 2018

GOODBYE TO ALL THAT

After
45 years and thousands of reviews, in print and online, it’s time
to hang up the “reviewing bag” - pens, notebooks, torch, cough
sweets, water – and put my feet up.

What
do you mean ?

In
brief, no new entries on this blog, except for some archive pieces,
which will be tweeted and shared in the usual way. But still the
occasional piece for other sites, adjudications for any group that
might care to commission them - and maybe Facebook mentions for the
events I shall pay to see.

My
thanks, of course, to all those who’ve invited me, to the
performers who’ve entertained me, the papers and the websites that
carried my words and to my driver and amanuensis, without whom I
should have given up long ago …

The views expressed in these pages are those of the authors alone. Extracts and images are included as Fair Use for the purposes of review. If you are the copyright owner, please contact me to have your work acknowledged or removed.

meagray@gmail.com

About Me

I first wrote reviews for the Essex Chronicle in the early 70s, part of a team led by "Jon Richards". When he stepped down, I took over the organization of the Arts Pages. In 1988 I was succeeded by Mary Redman, though I continued to contribute reviews until the Chronicle stopped carrying regular coverage of amateur performances. Peter Andrews of the Chelmsford Weekly News kindly allowed me to write for his paper. After he retired, his work was continued by Jim Hutchon, who recruited me again to share the load. After Jim died, I continued to provide professional reviews of arts events in and around Chelmsford and Brentwood, until I finally hung up my pen and my word processor in December 2017.
Apart from the newspaper - now The Chelmsford Times - my views have appeared on The Reviews Hub, Remote Goat and Sardines. And of course, all of them were shared on this blog.